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New in JavaFX 2.1: ComboBox

by Jonathan Giles | Mar 15, 2012 | Controls

One of the missing features of JavaFX in the 2.0 release was a ComboBox control, and I’m very pleased to say that we’ll be filling this gap in JavaFX 2.1. Indeed, it is already in the developer preview builds we’re putting out, and has been sitting in the OpenJFX mercurial repo for some weeks now. I’m fortunate enough to even be getting bug reports filed in our Jira issue tracker, which is justification enough to be getting early developer preview releases out into your hands as early as we have!

Non-editable and editable ComboBox controls of all shapes and sizes!

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JavaFX links of the week, March 12

by Jonathan Giles | Mar 11, 2012 | Links

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Build 16 of JavaFX 2.1 Developer Preview is now out. Go get it and give it a good test!
Jasper Potts converted the animate.css project to JavaFX, providing 52 ready to use animations for you to use in your applications.
Michael Heinrichs has blogged about how to create a sprite animation with JavaFX. The way in which he does it is quite interesting, and well worth reading to understand this area of the JavaFX API.
Steve Northover has updated the instructions for building OpenJFX.
Angela Caicedo has put up part two of her ‘building your first JavaFX application using NetBeans 7.1‘ YouTube video.
The Pro JavaFX 2 book was released this week. I read the first edition and it covered everything I needed to know before joining the JavaFX team, so it is well recommended.
Johan Vos has blogged about the availability of RedFX for JavaFX 2, and has a sample application showing how to use it.
Tom Schindl has announced that the next release of e(fx)clipse will contain improved OSGi support. This makes it easier to use JavaFX within Eclipse views.
Jeff Friesen has written a three-part series about ‘Practical JavaFX 2‘, where he goes about porting a Swing application to JavaFX.
Narayan Maharjan, after being prompted in a forum thread, has blogged about how to go about skinning the JavaFX Tooltip control.
Andy Moncsek has blogged about how to use his open source JacpFX framework.
Christian Schudt has blogged about his improvements to the JavaFX TreeView control to allow for populating it using just a List of items, rather than having to create TreeItem instances. This is something I’ll likely add to the DataFX project in the coming weeks as it seems like a useful thing to have.
Brian Schlining has created a ScalaFX version of the GroovyFX demo application.

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JavaFX links of the week, March 5

by Jonathan Giles | Mar 4, 2012 | Links

Hey everyone. Hope you’re all doing fine. Here’s another weeks worth of links. Enjoy! 🙂

JavaFX 2.1 developer preview build 15 is now out for your development testing pleasure.
Jasper Potts did two interesting posts here at FX Experience. The first post announces the availability of a FX Experience Tools application which should be downloaded and used by everyone interesting in styling their JavaFX applications. The second post discusses how he packaged this application into native Windows and Mac installers.
Dean Iverson has announced the availability of the 0.1 release of GroovyFX. GroovyFX is a library for people wanting to write JavaFX applications in Groovy.
Jim Weaver has a post up on the Oracle Technical Network website about laying out a user interface with JavaFX. This should be a must-read for anyone who wants to build JavaFX applications.
The JavaFX 1.x series of releases have been given their marching orders – these releases will stop being available on December 20, 2012. This is not to be confused with the current JavaFX 2.x series of releases, which are plowing on full steam ahead!
Tom Schindl has been having fun with SVG and JavaFX 2.0. He takes an SVG file, converts it to FXML, and then proceeds to look up elements of the scenegraph and animate them. This shows how easy it is for designers and developers to interact.
Angela Caicedo, an evangelist at Oracle (a list that I even find myself on), has started a video series on YouTube demonstrating how to build a JavaFX application.
Dustin Marx has a post detailing the JavaFX Color class.
DataFX had ComboBox cell factory support added in to the source code repository this week.
Johan Vos has announced that RedFX has been ported to JavaFX 2.x. RedFX provides functionality that allows JavaFX applications to share data with each other and with server applications without the need of writing lots of specific boiler plate code.

That’s that. Catch you next week!

JavaFX links of the week, February 27

by Jonathan Giles | Feb 26, 2012 | Links

Look at this – a post that is on time! Don’t expect this to happen too often 🙂

As another week rolls around, we have another JavaFX 2.1 developer preview release available, taking the build number up to b14.
Nicolas Lorain, a member of the JavaFX team at Oracle, and also known as @javafx4you on Twitter, has posted about his research into the JavaFX 2 developer community.
Michael Heinrichs, yet another member of the JavaFX team at Oracle, has posted a blog post about his ‘most often asked questions about JavaFX‘.
Speaking of questions people have about JavaFX 2, Dustin Marx has a post covering some of the questions he was recently asked at a conference he presented at.
Peter Zhelezniakov, another JavaFX team member at Oracle, has a post about communicating between JavaScript and JavaFX with WebEngine.
Geertjan Wielenga has posted about using the JavaFX WebView as a ready-to-roll NetBeans module for people wanting web browsing functionality.
Dan Zwolenski has ported the ‘first contact’ application to Spring. First Contact is a simple JavaFX-based contact management system that has been used in earlier blog posts.
In a separate post, Dan talks about ‘going remote – JavaFX and Spring‘.
Roberto Marquez has created an animated TIX clock using JavaFX 2.
Mark Anro Silva has a post about creating a ‘Tron-like’ effect in JavaFX 2 forms by modifying the CSS.
Johan Vos and I put out a new release of DataFX this week. The main feature of this release is the availability of a JDBC data source. We also announced the availability of the source code for people to explore and provide feedback / features on. We even got a friendly write-up on jaxenter.

That’s all – catch you all next week. 🙂

JavaFX links of the week, February 21

by Jonathan Giles | Feb 20, 2012 | Links

Sorry about being late again! You wouldn’t believe how long my todo list is these days. My apologies! Enjoy 🙂

This week JavaFX 2.0.3 was released. This is a security fix release only and does not contain any new features.
In conjunction with the JavaFX 2.0.3 release there is some more documentation that has been authored recently. New documents include concurrency and SWT APIs, and there have also been updates to FXML, JavaFX events and TreeView documents.
In OpenJFX news, the scenegraph APIs in the javafx-ui-common project were open sourced. Richard Bair goes into more detail about what this project contains.
In further OpenJFX news, the source code for JemmyFX has been released. JemmyFX is the functional test suite used by the JavaFX team.
Another developer preview build of JavaFX 2.1 has been released – we’re now at build 13.
Michael Heinrichs, a member of the JavaFX team at Oracle has put up his JavaFX 2.0 slides that he presented at JFokus 2012.
The GroovyFX website has been given a makeover. Check it out if you’re interested in writing JavaFX applications using Groovy.
Dustin Marx has blogged about “simultaneous animated text strings“.
Chika Okereke has blogged about PDF to JavaFX FXML conversion.
Kai Tödter has put up a screenshot comparing a JavaFX application before and after LCD text support.
Tom Schindl blogged about creating a phone-like scrollable list with velocity and friction. You can find the code for the FlingPane on GitHub.
Dan Zwolenski has posted a blog about JavaFX and Maven.
Mark Anro Silva has shown how to create custom shapes in JavaFX.
Over at Java.net, they have a post about developing JavaFX applications using CentOS 6.2.
blue-infinity consultant Jan Stenvall has written a mostly accurate white paper on JavaFX.

Catch you next week….hopefully a bit earlier in the week than this…. 🙂

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